Lepanthopsis ubangii Luer 1991 SECTION Lepanthopsis

Another Inflorescence Photos by © Ecuagenera and Their Ecuadorian Orchid Website

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Common Name The Ubangi Lepanthopsis [refers to the plate-like lip reminiscent of the practice of the Ubangi tribe in Africa]

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in southern Ecuador at elevations of 1800 meters as as mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 7, blackish, minutely ciliate-scabrous, leapanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a congested, simultaneously several flowered, .8" [2 cm] long, 2 ranked inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum—VIII. Systematics of Lepanthopsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Restrepiopsis, Salpistele, and Teagueia.Luer 1991; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing/photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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